Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 126

Hit wuz too fur fer ter see his face, but I know'd 'im by de filly w'at I raise fer 'im, en she wuz a prancin' like a school-gal.

Who acts: you, I, wuz · What happens: hit, see, know, im, raise, wuz · To what, where: wuz, face, fer, prancin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, wuz), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obj
3	too	too	ADV	_	1 Hit	advmod
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obj
5	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ter	compound
6	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fur	conj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 im	parataxis
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 im	aux
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 im	punct
16	im	im	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 raise	advcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 w'at	case
18	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 w'at	amod
19	filly	filly	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 w'at	compound
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 im	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 raise	nsubj
22	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	parataxis
23	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 raise	obj
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 im	punct
25	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fer	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 en	punct
27	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fer	conj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wuz	nsubj
29	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 raise	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 prancin	det
31	prancin	prancin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wuz	obj
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 gal	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	37 gal	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 gal	det
35	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gal	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 school	punct
37	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 prancin	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	wuz		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent wuz=Patient fur=Result
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	en's face		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
3	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	im	would	I not said here		by de filly w'at	tree rules
5	raise	present	I	fer and im and en		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=Theme
6	wuz	present	wuz	a prancin and a school gal		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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